SUMMARY - School Emergencies: Safety Protocols, Panic, and Prevention
A lockdown alarm sounds and children as young as five hide silently in closets, practicing invisibility while imagining someone who wants to kill them walking the halls - and teachers who signed up to educate now drill for combat scenarios they never imagined being part of their jobs. A school resource officer responds to a fight in the cafeteria and within seconds a student is handcuffed, what might have been a disciplinary matter becoming an arrest, the presence of police in schools transforming ordinary adolescent behaviour into criminal justice contact.